lens

the lens.xyz onboarding flow is pretty neat

1. free account creation
2. choose an app to use your account with

clear messaging, maintains neutrality towards clients

those apps should have dedicated entrypoints to sign users in with lens though. half of them don't use lens as a primary authentication method anymore

what if farcaster miniapps would have a dedicated entrypoint for onboarding purposes?

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the app can just support being loaded in a browser directly outside a farcaster client 🤷‍♂️

maybe there's a way to use it as a guest?

requiring users to create a farcaster account to use your app feels like an anti pattern since they won't have any of the benefits that a farcaster account is supposed to provide when they sign into your app (social graph, profile data, etc)

you're almost better off having a email / social auth / wallet sign up flow for users without a farcaster account